GitHub email refusing repository export to sanctioned developer

Saeedi Fard, H. "A Sad Day for Iranian Developers." Medium, July 2019; archived via the Wayback Machine where the original is unavailable.

Key fact: Verbatim email from GitHub support to a sanctioned-region developer: "Unfortunately we are not legally able to send an export of the disabled repository content. I'm sorry for the frustration here, but GitHub must comply with U.S. export control laws and sanction requirements."

Use: Primary-source evidence for E-0009. Demonstrates that the platform's compliance posture extended to refusing user export of their own work — the exact failure mode C-0016 / R6 prescribe maintaining local clones to prevent.

Original whitepaper reference: [25a]